Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Christmas 2011 (lots of pictures included!)

We had a great Christmas Eve - it was so nice having Judith home this year, and I was super excited to take some pics of her all decked out in her holiday finest!

You can't make me smile.

nom nom nom!

Wait, you're not supposed to eat shoes?

I'm surprised at how well Judith did throughout the service, considering I took her to the middle (7:30) service, and that fell during her normal bedtime. She had a meltdown during the preludes because I wasn't around, but after I rang the bell piece I went back to her godfather and calmed her down. She was great for the rest of the night, and fell asleep right after communion.

Christmas Day we skipped out on services since we had Judith out so late Christmas Eve (we took 1 car to church to help save gas, and we didn't get home until a little after 1 - Judith did sleep at church though, so she wasn't completely off schedule). My grandparents came up in the morning to help me get Christmas dinner started, and they had fun playing with Judith:

Judith had fun with her great-grandparents, and also had fun sticking her hand in the dogs' water bowl and splashing around. That happened twice that day, and both times she soaked her cute Christmas jammies. Silly girl.

Anyway, after chowing down on an amazing dinner of ham, mashed potatoes, and green bean casserole, we opened presents:

Check out this big girl standing all by herself, no support!

Judith got so many awesome gifts! A bunch of stuffed animals were included, and now it seems the zoo is officially full. She also got some great onesies, a bunch of new books (including some Olivia books - I love it!), and some money for her savings account. She has so much stuff that's new, and she can't make up her mind what to play with at any given time haha!

John & I also got some great gifts. He got a Canon PowerShot (in a nice blue, close to Conrail blue haha!) so he can take pictures, and shoot some video that we can actually upload to the computer - his video camera is ancient, and we can't get the connector cables anymore, so it'll be nice to be able to post videos every now and then. He's also going to get some DVDs that he wants, along with some new music.

I am enjoying my early Christmas gift of a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens for my camera (that's what I took all of these pictures with), and I got the Nintendo 3DS that I wanted, along with 2 games: Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7! The 3D part is what's taking the longest to get used to, and right now I have a very shallow depth set until my eyes adjust. I'm also enjoying the circle pad - it's a feature I've been looking forward to having on a handheld. I'm enjoying the games so far, and I can't wait for the new Animal Crossing and Paper Mario to finally be released!

We're thankful that we had such a great and semi-relaxing holiday this year!